The Earthwise Herbal
The Earthwise Herbal
Matthew Wood · first published 2008 · ISBN 9781556437793
A materia medica of Old World medicinal plants written by a practicing herbalist who leans on traditional energetic frameworks as much as on constituent chemistry. Wood profiles each plant with the specificity of someone who has watched it work and failed with it too, noting who it suits and who it does not.
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Wood writes materia medica the old way, by temperament and constitution, and he is specific about who a plant suits and who it does not. Whether or not you accept the energetic framework, the observational detail is the product of decades of actual practice.